We're having a little trouble with the space-time
continuum today, but we'll battle through it to bring you a new
group chat. Here's a road-map to our conversation.

1:11 Intros and What's New With You? — Nicole's
son is on the road, and we're wondering to what degree he is
fleeing for the border and whether he or just his girlfriend should
come back from Canada. Fortunately, it's all good.

5:07 Parenting Fails — What's not so good is
the way that even we alleged "parenting experts" screw up and fall
short, on kind of a regular basis. We share some of our worst
parenting moments, and hope you'll feel better about yours.

14:27 Bad Coworker Stories — Our discussion
about our worst coworkers degenerates, as perhaps it must with
writers, into a discussion of persnickety copy-editors trying to
shoehorn lame generic terms for Velcro into our work. Then again,
we can't all have stories as exciting as Nicole's great escape from
a bad school principal.

29:48 Interview of the Week —Robert Rummel-Hudson joins
us to talk about the fact that for parents of kids with
special needs, parenting fails are both more serious and more
frequent than for parents of typical kids. So this is the
upbeat, happy part of the podcast, y'know?

Thanks as always to Jon Morin for producing our podcast and for
our fun in-and-out music. If you're reading this somewhere without
hyperlinks, come to http://parentingroundabout.com for the full
recap experience.

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